"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."

--Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
 

Note:  this page features samples of my NewSpace industry writing.  Please contact me for a complete list of my published NewSpace material, or if you need samples of my business and IT career writing, such as marketing collateral, presentations, competitive analysis, sales and marketing guidance, and more.

Selection of published articles, Op-Ed's, columns, and essays:

NewSpace Nation: America's Emerging Entrepreneurial Space Industry (a primer) (January 2009)

Tackling Tomorrow Today: Moving Along, Far Ahead

Vol. 4 of a book series for high school students published in Spring 2005, for which I wrote the following essays:

• Debate: Space and Our Near Future

• Teenagers: Space and the Far Out

Misc. Online Essays

• Can North Carolina Take Off? (January 2006)

• Space is Our Home, Not a Program (June 2004)

• Mother of space storms bearing down on state (March 2010)
  

The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)

• Getting Serious About NewSpace (Oct. 2009)
• Earthly Benefits in a New Space Race (Feb. 2009) 
• Up, up and away, Triangle (Sept. 2008)
• Shooting for N. C.'s Space Potential (March 2008)
  

Ad Astra

• Space: A Moral Vacuum? (Winter 2005)

Space News

• Will This Be the Decade of NewSpace (February 2010)
• The Nixon Space Doctrine Needs A Marburger Update (December 2008)
• Mars and Constellation: Irrelevant to a True Space Economy (March 2008)
  

• Will It Be a Highway to Hell... or to the Stars? (January 2006)

• Making Space Commercially Relevant (February 2005)

• Marketing Space to the General Public and Media (November 2004)

• Creating an Orbital Economy (April 2002)

• When Politics and Economics Collide (November 1998)

• Space Planes in Limbo (May 1998)

• Solutions Beget More Problems (January 1997)

• Gale Force Winds of Change (May 1993)

The Houston Chronicle

• Storm Clouds Roil Over NASA, Page 1 (May 1995)

• Storm Clouds Roil Over NASA, Page 2 (May 1995)

• U.S. love affair with space reborn… maybe (September 1993)

• Invest in science or be shackled to today’s problems (June 1992)

Houston Business Journal

• Space Center Houston: focus on future instead of past (January 1996)

Journal for Space Development "Think About It" column samples (1992-95)

• Category Five Hurricane Named Change (May 1993)

• Engines of our Ingenuity (July 1994)

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